Arash Safaian

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Arash Safaian (* 1981 in Tehran , Iran ) is a German- Iranian composer .

Life

Arash Safaian received lessons in piano, composition and composition from an early age. At the same time he devoted himself to his own drawings and paintings, for which he received the prize of the Saxon-Bavarian Youth Art Biennale at the age of 17. After school he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Peter Angermann . He then started studying composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater. There he studied with Jan Müller-Wieland . He also continued his studies with Pascal Dusapin . He later expanded his musical training by studying film music with Enjott Schneider .

In 2010 he founded the INDEX ensemble for contemporary music and visual arts with the conductor Samy Moussa, and has been its artistic director ever since. Since 2013, he has also been a partner in the Century Rolls production company in Munich. Arash Safaian wrote numerous orchestral and chamber music pieces, as well as works for musical theater. In addition to numerous film and theater music, he composed the short opera “At-Stake” for the Munich Opera Biennale 2010 and the music theater “on the beach” for the 30th anniversary of Philip Glass “Einstein on the beach”, which took place in 2012 at the Baryshnikov Arts Center was premiered under the direction of Robert Wilson and Marcia Moraes. Arash Safaian lives and works in Munich.

Arash Safaian is the son of the painter and sculptor Ali Akbar Safaian .

Awards

Arash Safaian is the winner of the Reinl Foundation Vienna, the international Günther-Bialas Prize Munich and the eon Culture Prize Bavaria. As artistic director of the INDEX ensemble, he was awarded the Bavarian Art Prize in 2013. He was also a scholarship holder from the DAAD and the City of Munich. He received a scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia Bamberg and the Cite des Artes Paris. In 2017 he and Sebastian Knauer received a classic echo . For his compositions for the film Lara (director: Jan-Ole Gerster ) he received the Bavarian Film Prize 2019 in the film music category.

Works

Orchestra / ensemble

  • Venus Passages Concert for violin and orchestra
  • In symmetry for ensemble and electronics
  • Dramolet for ensemble of 7 musicians and baritone
  • Centurione for brass quintet and accordion
  • Night Falls for ensemble of 7 instruments
  • Tactics , a musical strategy game for ensemble of any line-up and two players
  • Night Falls for ensemble of 7 instruments
  • ÜberBach five concerts for piano, vibraphone and string orchestra

Opera

  • Der Schuss 2-6-1967 on the 50th anniversary of Benno Ohnesorg's death ( Premiere Neuköllner Oper , Berlin)
  • Exit Paradise , Singspiel (Premiere Neuköllner Oper, Berlin)
  • On the beach , short opera for Philip Glass "Einstein on the Beach" (UA Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York)
  • At Stacke , short opera (WP 12th Munich Opera Biennale)
  • Le Docteur Miracle , adaptation of the opera by George Bizet (UA Reaktorhalle Munich)
  • Tactics , musical strategy game (UA A • DEvantgarde Festival , Munich)
  • Agara , opera fragment

Chamber music

  • Grammar I for two pianos
  • Grammar II for piano solo and tape
  • Alpha for accordion solo
  • Turner's Case Trio for horn, violin and piano
  • Cadenza for solo percussion and electronics
  • Plateau for percussion, piano and flute

Music for the film

  • 2014: In the Shadow of the Copacabana , directed by Denize Galeao
  • 2016: The 7th day, director: Roland Suso Richter
  • 2018: The Public Enemy, Director: Felix Herzogenrath
  • 2019: Lara , director: Jan-Ole Gerster

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography . In: Arash Safaian . August 1, 2016 ( arashsafaian.com [accessed November 21, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Biography . In: Arash Safaia . August 1, 2016 ( arashsafaian.com [accessed November 21, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Biography . In: Arash Safaian . August 1, 2016 ( arashsafaian.com [accessed November 21, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Arash Safaian , New Masters, accessed January 16, 2020
  5. ↑ https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/ategorie-filmmusik-bayerischer-filmpreis-2019-arash-safaian-fuer-lara-av:5e23840276cb6e001adabb23
personal data
SURNAME Safaian, Arash
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran